Cybersecurity Platform Engineering Manager

Cybersecurity Platform Engineering Manager

Dearborn, MI, United States (Remote)

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We are seeking a Risk Engineering Manager of Others to lead and scale a team of technically strong Risk Engineers focused on engineering risk-reducing solutions
, not just defining processes or controls. This role is accountable for people leadership, technical direction, and delivery outcomes
, ensuring that risk intent is consistently translated into practical, automated, and measurable technical solutions
.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader of people
—someone who can coach engineers, set architectural direction, prioritize work based on risk impact, and partner effectively with senior engineering and security leaders. Process exists to support delivery, but solutions come first
.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Risk Engineers with diverse technical skill sets.
• Set clear expectations for technical rigor, ownership, and outcomes
  .
• Build a high-performing culture that values engineering excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
• Support career development, performance management, and succession planning.

Technical & Strategic Leadership

• Establish and maintain technical direction for how risk is engineered into platforms, architectures, and pipelines.
• Ensure risk requirements are consistently translated into implementable solution patterns
  , not just documentation.
• Prioritize work based on risk reduction value, system criticality, and recovery dependencies
  .
• Review and challenge designs to ensure controls are effective, automatable, and evidence-driven
  .

Delivery & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with cloud, platform, security, and SRE leaders to embed risk controls directly into engineering workflows.
• Balance near-term risk mitigation with long‑term architectural resilience.
• Represent Risk Engineering in senior forums, articulating tradeoffs and decisions with clarity and credibility.
• Ensure teams deliver outcomes that measurably reduce risk—not just activity.

Preferred Technical Background

While this role is people-focused,
technical credibility is required
.

• Strong familiarity with:
  • Cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
  • Site Reliability Engineering practices
  • Translating observability signals into actionable insights
  • Backup, recovery, and resilience implementation architectures
  • ITIL‑based IT Service Management (ITSM)
  • Everything as Code
    • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
    • Automation and configuration management (Ansible)
    • Scripting or programming (Python)
    • CI/CD pipelines and policy‑as‑code
• Familiarity with
  • Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes
  • GRC Platforms:
    Archer, Service Now
  • Agentic AI Implementations
• Comfortable reviewing designs, architectures, and automation produced by the team.

Able to ask the right technical questions—even if not writing code daily.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles
• 5+ years managing engineers or technical practitioners in a large enterprise
• Demonstrated success leading teams to deliver large scale technical solutions as code, in order to seize opportunity and/or to address risk
• Solid understanding of how risk manifests in technology, especially cloud, distributed systems, identity, and recovery architectures
• Proven ability to influence across organizational and functional boundaries

What Success Looks Like

• Teams deliver risk reduction through architecture, automation, and enforceable controls
• Engineers trust Risk Engineering as a technical partner
  , not a compliance gate
• Risk decisions are informed by real system behavior and evidence
• Process exists only where it enables faster, safer, and more reliable technical outcomes

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

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